HFC - Cup 4 - Asoka of China.

Metzi

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Welcome to the Half Full Club, Cup 4. Here we pull our own hair out, attempting to win with rediculous circumastances.
So come, enjoy your daily loss of productivity and sanity. Feel free to join in and critize at your will. I love input.
The series is now at Prince!

Contents:
Round 1 -Foundations​
Round 2 -The Religion Explosion

Round 3 -Bugger

Round 4 -Recovering an empire

Round 5 -Chinese UU = :)

Round 6 -Ceasars Demise

Round 6 -A Peacful Requim

Our leader. Introducing the lovely Asoka of the China, the Religious Emperor.
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Our leader has two traits:
Spiritual - A trait that allows Civic changing without anarchy. It also gives us 1/2 price on temples. A very nice trait indeed.
Organized - A trait that gives us 1/2 the price on Civics. It also gives us cheaper Courthouses, Lighthouses and another one I can't quite remember.


Our Unique Unit (Commonly refered as the UU). Ah, the Cho-ko-nu!
The Chinese replacement for the Crossbowman. It has the regular bonuses vs. Melee but also:
1) Colleteral damadge. Yeah!
2) First strikes. I believe it's 1-2.

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Our Unique Building (If you haven't picked it up, it is commonley refered to as the UB, such as the UU). The lovely Pavilion!
It gives us:
1) The usuall culture bonuses. 25% more culture. +1 :) from dyes'.
2) It gives us +3 Culture to begin with. It also gives us +1 :) per 10% culture, instead of 20%.

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The start! I'm tempted to settle in place. Of course moving the warrior 1SE will determine this, of course. Looks like an adourable start, regardless
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The Rules:
1) We WILL NOT trade with any civ with any religion, that isn't our state religion. This includes demands for Relgions, civics, resorces, techs etc. We loath them.
1a) We may adopt any religion we wish. But be warned. We may not switch from this Religion. We must also have a Religion by the year 500AD! Ty Iymond.
2) When possible you must addopt the following civics: Organized Relgion, Represintation, Enviromentalism and Emancipation. If you are forced/accidentily change, then change back ASAP.
3) You cannot build cottages. NONE. ZIT. If you capture a city containing cottages, you may keep them. This rule counts that you CANNOT BUILD them.


You may be wondering. How should I post?
We awnser, 'anytime you like, so long as you use spoilers'.
Feel free to explain at anytime.

Thanks:
Cam H - there to scold me into shape. Ty!
TMIT - Your "let's play" videos are very impressive. I'm showing them to my father so that he can be a challange!
Kossin - For thou art ze king.


The save is below, it is a WB save, enabling you to choose your speed and difficulty.
Be warned, you will need to give the Barbarians techs according to your level of Difficulty. But I'm sure you know what this is.

Enjoy the Damnation.
Remember, patience. Discpline.
 

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1) We WILL NOT trade with any civ with any religion, that isn't our state religion. This includes demands for Relgions, civics, resorces, techs etc. We loath them.

Though Ashoka greatly increased the influence of buddhism (btw, you could make it mandatory that the state religion be buddhism until free religion is available), he didn't stop others from expressing their faith, in fact, he is known for being quite tolerant of people regardless of their religious views, and for trading with people with various views.

Just saying, in case you want to more closely follow the RL leader. ;) (in which case you might also promote early war followed by huge regret for the slaughter caused and peaceful attitude for the rest of the game - i.e. you're allowed to war until 500BCE, then you're forced to not take part in any war unless you're defending for the rest of the game - RL Ashoka gained so much power early on that no one dared declare war on his empire afterwards :))
 
Hmm. I'm familiar with the history of Asoka, but I didn't want to have a Rule that we must have Buddism for two reasons:
1) It doesn't sound like a rule, realy.
2) It is not garunteed that we may aquire Buddism.

I'm tempted to put in a War-until-certain-date rule. But you cannot practicaly finish/end wars on an exact date.

I think the rules are leveling for such a powerfull leader. Because no-body likes Enviromentalism. ;).
 
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Hmm. I'm familiar with the history of Asoka, but I didn't want to have a Rule that we must have Buddism for two reasons:
1) It doesn't sound like a rule, realy.
2) It is not garunteed that we may aquire Buddism.

I'm tempted to put in a War-until-certain-date rule. But you cannot practicaly finish/end wars on an exact date.

I think the rules are leveling for such a powerfull leader. Because no-body likes Enviromentalism. ;).

I'm I correct with the de facto assumption that we must always be in a religion. Technically you can be out of a religion and still in OR though. However, that's counter-productive. Yet, switching out of Religion can have diplo effects. So I guess, should a rule be that once we get a religion we stick with it or is religion/no-religion flexible. As for rule 1, we could basically switch religions to trade with an AI we have heretofore not been able to trade/interact with.

Added to this, should we be required to found one religion?
 
Forgot about that.
But you can still see the resorces, right.

not exactly. i'm sure i see cows and what I assume is marble. just pointing it out...no biggie
 
I have to say you are quite impressive for a 14 yr old - male I presume. Must be a Scottish thing. 14 year old males in America are legally (PC) "mentally challenged" and legally insane. And if your female, it's even worse - at least with respect to being insane. With that said, some proofreading of original post is advised.
 
Yes, I am a scottish male, 14 years of age. My mother is English, which is why it sounds decent (?).
I did live in America for a year. People there fought I was from Germany (No offence, but honestly. It's a whole different language :mad:)
I did try proof-reading, but obviously I need to triple-think my rules. :).
 
Yes, I am a scottish male, 14 years of age. My mother is English, which is why it sounds decent (?).
I did live in America for a year. People there fought I was from Germany (No offence, but honestly. It's a whole different language :mad:)
I did try proof-reading, but obviously I need to triple-think my rules. :).

Americans think everyone foreign is German! ha...no...just kidding.

Actually, in case you didn't know, English is a Germanic language. German sounds very different obviously and there's some key phonetic differences like ich and no "th" (replace with "duh" sound). However, there are tons of similar words and some words are actually spelled the same though pronounced different. (for example "warm") Germans learn and speak English quite easily...I know...I've been there a few times. Since your Scottish and speak English with a generally heavy/unique dialect, it's not too surprising that stupid American teenagers would confuse it a little. I would not though....stupid American teenagers grow up to be slightly more intelligent adults...ha
 
lol. I sound posh for one thing. I say plants like I'm having a cup-of-tea.
I'm also taking German. It's a very lovely language, and you can make everything sound angry like. And yes, English shouldn't realy be a language, as we just eveolved words from other languages.

Interesting isn't it?
 
lol. I sound posh for one thing. I say plants like I'm having a cup-of-tea.
I'm also taking German. It's a very lovely language, and you can make everything sound angry like. And yes, English shouldn't realy be a language, as we just eveolved words from other languages.

Interesting isn't it?

very...lot's of English speakers don't realize it's a base Germanic language since English did evolve after the Norman invasion (French...hence Latin influences..Middle English) and, of course, the most slang of any language, some of which is derived from other languages given our diversity here. Another thing about German that makes it hard for us is the different grammatical structure (like some other languages too). To us, it's like they say everything backwards.

Sounds like you eschewed the Scottish brogue for your mother's dialect...chip chip cheerio!
 
I'm also taking German. It's a very lovely language, and you can make everything sound angry like.

That explains Neue Deutsche Hart :), which is basically hard rock but in German. :) I really like German for that reason. :D

And yes, English shouldn't realy be a language, as we just evolved words from other languages.

That's true of most languages, the part that they evolved from earlier versions, but I don't think that they shouldn't be considered languages, though.
 
Meh, all languages have uses.
Infact we found a very interesting German Song called 'du hast'. :)

Unfortunetly the world will never be united, just united in points of view.
 
Meh, all languages have uses.
Infact we found a very interesting German Song called 'du hast'. :)

Yeah, that song works. :D There are other nice songs of that fashion, and there's a band which incorporated a lot of instrumental music as well, called Lacrimosa, which is quite nice. :D

Unfortunetly the world will never be united, just united in points of view.

Seeing as my journey to considering myself an Earthling was greatly influenced by an antinationalistic blog post I read when I was still nationalistic, I'm hopeful. :D

Anyway, I apologize for going off-topic, I hope people don't lose patience. This game seems easier than the last one, which I thought was nigh impossible when I saw the rules, so I'm curious how it goes. :D
 
Meh, all languages have uses.
Infact we found a very interesting German Song called 'du hast'. :)

Unfortunetly the world will never be united, just united in points of view.

ha...Rammstein put that out when you were like 1 years old. It was fairly popular in the states at that time. Good song!
 
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